I agree, people who argue for this approach are good at it and often feel that they are exceptional because of it -- though the real world hardly cares, and the

I agree, people who argue for this approach are good at it and often feel that they are exceptional because of it -- though the real world hardly cares, and therefore it's a self-serving bias imo. You build institutions like these with this sort of bias for a purpose and that is to select a certain type of people to be privileged.